Ring sneaks

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Ring sneaks
Anniella campi

Anniella campi

Systematics
Superordinate : Scale lizards (Lepidosauria)
Order : Scale reptiles (Squamata)
without rank: Toxicofera
without rank: Sneaky (Anguimorpha)
Family : Anniellidae
Genre : Ring sneaks
Scientific name of the  family
Anniellidae
Boulenger , 1885
Scientific name of the  genus
Anniella
Gray , 1852

The Ringel crawl ( Anni Ella ) are a genus of Squamata (squamates). They stand alone in the Anniellidae family .

The up to 30 centimeters long animals are similar to the slow worms . However, they lack the external auditory orifices and they also have no bone plates under their scales. The legs are missing. Her eyes are small and the lids flexible. They live underground during the day and come to the surface at night to forage. With their tongues and sideways wave movements they dig their passages in loose and sandy earth. Their diet consists mainly of insects.

American legless lizard are viviparous ( viviparous ). Between September and November the females give birth to one to four young. The lizards reach sexual maturity at around three years of age.

species

Distribution area

There are six species, found in the US state of California and the Mexican state of Baja California . The Geronimo ring snake takes its name from the island of San Gerónimo (Spanish: Isla San Jerónimo ) in which it lives, off the west coast of Baja California.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American legless lizards from: The Reptile Database , accessed on March 31, 2010, English.

Web links

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